Be part of the World's Biggest Coffee morning for Macmillan Cancer Relief and help Macmillan to support the thousands of people and their families who have to deal with the shock of a cancer diagnosis each year
You are invited to join
Dennis and Noeline North
at 82, North Acre, Longparish
on Friday 26 th September for coffee
from 10am to 12 noon
The cemetery is looking good but the surface is uneven in some places. That makes it is hard work to mow and difficult for older relatives to reach some graves. Clive Kent, who keeps it in such good order, needs topsoil to fill some of the dips. If you can help please contact Clive or David Gould, the Clerk to the Burial Board david.gould@longparish.org.uk or tel 720709 or me jeremy.barber@longparish.org.uk Thank you. Jeremy Barber (tel 720459).
Many thanks to all the ladies who so faithfully arrange flowers in our church week by week. We are certainly fortunate to have such a lot of talent in our village. Eila Chamberlen has just taken over the organisation of the flower rota. Many thanks to Babs Duxbury who has organised the rota so conscientiously for so many years. We are delighted that you are continuing to be on the rota, Babs.
Nona Harrison
Donations of fruit and vegetables for decorating the Church for Harvest Festival will be very welcome. Afterwards these are taken to Bridges International in Andover, hostels for the homeless and for rehabilitation. Please give donations to Eila Chamberlen, Nona Harrison, or bring to the church after 5pm on Saturday 20 th September.
Martin Lampard's email address is Martin. Lampard@ntlworld.com . Apologies to those who have tried and failed to contact him.
Our prize-winning website has now been updated by Fiona Gould. Have you checked it recently?
• A full report of the fire safety talk is the village website. A copy plus a booklet with tips about avoiding thatch fires will be distributed to all thatched houses. Please look. It could save your life
• Planning.
• Damp proofing at West Brook Cottage . The council supported this application for work to protect against flooding.
• Club House at Owls Lodge . Outline permission has already been granted. The Council had no objection to this application for detailed permission, subject to agreement of a planting scheme.
• Vodaphone mast in Forton Vodaphone have written saying they intend to ask for new aerials on the existing mast. The Council has responded by asking whether they can help with Broadband.
• Tree works at Tudor Cottage. No objection.
• Fence at 52 North Acre. TVBV refused the application for a 1.8 metre high fence. The parish council appointed a viewing group to meet the applicant to discuss alternative ideas. It will report to the September meeting.
• TVBC draft local plan. The council supported proposals in a TVBC discussion paper to involve village more in the local plan.
• Following visits by the Open Spaces Committee to various playgrounds the council decided to buy a rotating dish, for younger children like the one on the new Vigo Road playground. It won't arrive yet because we have to wait for TVBC to deal with our grant application.
• The Dog Warden was invited to talk to the October meeting on Monday 13 October. Anyone interested is welcome to come. Details will be in next month's Hill and Valley. See also the article in this issue.
• The Council supported an application to the Countryside Agency for a grant to help the work on the Village Plan . There is lots of information on the website.
If you'd like to know more, the council minutes are published on our village website www.longparish.org.uk .
The next meeting is at 7.30pm on Monday 8 September in the Village Hall committee room. Our meetings are public and all parishioners are welcome to come and can speak. The agenda will be on the notice boards at the shop and in Forton a few days before the meeting.
Jeremy Barber Chairman
Tel 720459 email jeremy.barber@longparish.org.uk